[Web4lib] Thesaurus Management Software

[William Denton]

On 31 August 2007, Reegan D. Breu wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone can recommend either open-source or commercial
> thesaurus management software? We're developing a controlled vocabulary for
> our catalogue and looking for a tool to create our own thesaurus.

A couple of years ago I compared about eight different thesaurus 
management apps and the best I found was Term Tree [1].  I used it for a 
project and it did a fine job, except that it's a single-user system and 
not designed for multiple people to manage a thesaurus from different 
locations.

I don't know how the scene has changed since then, but I would recommend 
seriously considering just writing your own web-based system in Perl 
(maybe with Biblio::Thesaurus) or some other scripting language, if you 
can.  Thesauri have simple structures it wouldn't be hard.

Bill

[1] http://www.termtree.com.au/html/termtree.html
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